Bios Discussion

Malicious Wraith · Post by **Malicious Wraith** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:04 pm

Something may need to change about Bios. If you believe that it should, or you believe that it should not, please state what changes you would like, and why they would make for better gameplay.

cashto · Post by **cashto** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:08 pm

Yes, I think Bios should be disabled on Nova. At least for in squad games.

Other than that, it's fine.

djrbk · Post by **djrbk** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:23 pm

Bios is perfect, fun, my favourite, and well balanced between perks and flaws as is. Does wonderfully on big maps, terrible choice on a rush map.

Do not touch, plzkthx.

Kap · Post by **Kap** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:12 pm

Bios seems tailor made for pugs. You only have to mine your home and one sector or so on any regularly played map/settings to kickstart your research, then you have bare bones adv tech around 30mins. Any extra mining means 2nd tech and/or adv tech with all the trimmings.

Of course if you kill all bios miners then you just make it easier for them to decide between minerD/minerO/bombing, soon either all/or most of your miners are dead or you are taken off the map. If none of these things happened they still won time for their adv tech to come up while your team is stranded on defending bases/miners.

You could bomb them but their prox figs or gs aren't bad. Bomb runs are usually eyed vs bios because all their miners are dead and all they have to do is wander around your launch points to kill your miners or probe. Bombing factions like belters have more chance but too often your team keeps bombing while they mine freely.

Usually when bios loses it is because they didn't go sup, their team sucked too much or most usually their commander doesn't partial efficiently. That or your team is super aggressive and you win in 10-20mins which is probably as much time it took to start the game.

PS: Pre-partial ability Bios vs current Bios. Was it as good/bad as today's bios?

DasSmiter · Post by **DasSmiter** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:39 pm

I vote for dropping the prox on figs, opens up the early bombrush against Bios a bit more.

And there's a point where you have to blame the commander for playing bios on such and such settings.

Corrosion · Post by **Corrosion** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:50 pm

Drop the prox on figs or only let enh/adv figs drop prox is something that could definitely go.

Couple ideas I'm throwing out here.

Nerf bios paydays?

Increase time to build large bios cons?

Nerf their hull?

Malicious Wraith · Post by **Malicious Wraith** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:18 am

Corroison wrote:QUOTE (Corroison @ Sep 26 2009, 07:50 PM) Nerf bios paydays?

That could work.

sambasti · Post by **sambasti** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:34 am

Corroison wrote:QUOTE (Corroison @ Sep 26 2009, 07:50 PM) Nerf bios paydays?

Nerfing bios paydays would change them from the "comback" faction to the "ZOMG K1LL TH31R M1N3RS B3FORE TH3Y MIN3 A S3CTOR!!!111" faction.

In other words: no.

A better approach would be to nerf their mining capabilities.

Personally, however, I am against all changes to bios. Don't fix what isn't broken.

spideycw · Post by **spideycw** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:35 am

Stupid thread.

We have discussed switching out basic bios figs prox for mp. Will come up in a poll down the road

Malicious Wraith · Post by **Malicious Wraith** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:37 am

The key to bios unbalance in most ways is their ability to have an economy unabated with 0 miners after a certain point has been passed. I think that the key to fixing them is to hack down their paydays to something much smaller. 100, 200, 250 all come to mind.